Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Automatically filtering out the remote host?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:24:08 -0800

On Nov 10, 2003, at 3:15 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:


SSH provides information about the addresses and ports involved in its
connection via the REMOTEHOST, SSH_CLIENT and SSH_CONNECTION environment 
variables.  Microsoft's Terminal Server provides similar information in
the CLIENTAME environment variable.  Would it be a useful thing to take
this information and provide an easy/automatic way for users to filter out 
Heisentraffic (traffic generated by Ethereal during a capture)?
It wouldn't handle *all* the Heisentraffic (consider a capture saving to the user's home directory when it's on an NFS server, for example), but it'd probably be a useful option. 

Don't forget to check DISPLAY as well.